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James Dwarkanath Cotelingam, MD

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy.
Shreveport, LA 71202
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General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Clinical and Laboratory Pathology

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy.
Shreveport, LA 71202
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General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Clinical and Laboratory Pathology
My training is in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Hematology (Pathology). I have 40 years of experience in Pathology, and have served in Medical Missions, Community Medicine, Military Medicine, and in University settings. In 1997 I retired from the U.S. Navy and joined the Pathology Department at LSU Health Shreveport. I coordinate the Clinical Pathology portion of the Pathology Residency Program with training specifically in hematopathology. My primary service and research interest is in morphologic hematopathology. I participate in the daily sign-out of cases (bone marrow, lymph node, and other tissues with hematopoietic and lymphoreticular disease), which are conducted at a consensus conference with residents, fellows, and staff in Hematopathology and Molecular Pathology. I enjoy the interaction and teaching involved in making diagnoses that are arrived at by integrating routine techniques, immunohistochemistry, cytochemistry, immunophenotyping, cytogenetics, and molecular genetic studies.

Medical School

Christian Medical College - undefined

Internship

Christian Medical College - Rotating

Residency

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Pathology, Christian Medical College - Pathology, Ohio Valley Medical Center - Pathology

Fellowship

National Naval Medical Ctr. - Hematopathology

Certifications

American Board of Pathology - Pathology, Hematology, Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology

Accepted Payors at Our Facilities

  • Aetna Better Health (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Aetna Health Inc. PPO/POS
  • Aetna Health Inc. - Medicare Advantage
  • AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana- HMO/PPO/OGB & Blue Connect product(s) & Medicare Advantage product(s), Blue High Performance Network
  • Cigna Behavioral Health
  • Cigna HealthCare
  • Cigna-HealthSpring - Medicare Advantage product(s)
  • Coventry Healthcare of Louisiana
  • Dignity Care Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
  • First Health Network PPO
  • Gilsbar 360
  • Healthy Blue (formerly Amerigroup Louisiana Inc.) (Healthy Louisiana) and Healthy Blue Dual Advantage (HMO-D-SNP)
  • Humana Behavioral Health
  • Humana - Commercial, Medicare Advantage
  • Humana Military - Tricare
  • Louisiana Healthcare Connections (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation(LWCC)
  • Medicaid/Medicare
  • Multiplan/PHCS/American LifeCare
  • Optum VA CCN
  • Peoples Health Network - Medicare Advantage
  • Stratose - PPO
  • United Behavioral Health (Optum) - United Commercial, Medicare Advantage and Community Plan (Healthy Louisiana)
  • United Healthcare - Commercial
  • United Healthcare Community Plan (Healthy Louisiana)
  • USA Managed Care Network
  • Vantage Health Plan - Commercial, Medicare Advantage
  • Verity Health Network - LSU First Choice
  • Zelis (formerly PPOPlus)